New Graf going up in the back, arcade for an entrance - come check it #LES #NYC (Taken with Instagram at Community 54)
The New York Times wins the interactive tools and visualization competition for the #Hurricanepocalypse, hands down.
NYC Hurricane Evacuation Map
The Pace Gallery Inaugurating New Space Beneath High Line with David Byrne Installation
The south side of West 25th Street between Tenth and Eleventh avenues in Chelsea is already home to two huge Pace Gallery spaces, and now a third is in the works. But before the blue chip gallery gets to building on its recently acquired lot at 508 West 25th Street, directly beneath the High Line—the same vacant lot where last year Rashaad Newsome and Maluca Mala filmed a music video—and directly east of its 510 West 25th Street space, Pace will use the lot as a public, outdoor venue for an installation by David Byrne.
Byrne’s temporary installation in the dusty lot, a giant, inflatable globe squeezed between the High Line’s pillars and titled “Tight Spot” (2011), will open on the evening of September 15 and remain on view through October 1, ArtInfo reports. The inflatable orb, which will be 48 feet wide and 20 feet tall, will be accompanied by a very low, vibrating soundscape, a distortion of Byrne’s voice.
During that site-specific public installation Byrne will also have work in The Pace Gallery’s Social Mediaexhibition (through October 15) in its next-door space at 510 West 25th Street—which, incidentally, was designed by the same architect who will eventually create the building that will fill the gallery’s new lot, gallery and art star favorite Bill Katz. What that building will look like or when it will be built is unclear—though presumably the gallery is anticipating being kicked out of its 545 West 22nd Street space when the Dia Foundation makes good on its plans to erect its new Manhattan home there—but this is how David Byrne’s giant inflatable globe will look squished under the High Line.
Rendering of David Byrne’s “Tight Spot,” 2011. (Courtesy The Pace Gallery)
Weather is here… Bridges #nyc (Taken with instagram)
Manhattan Neighborhoods In Six Words Or Less
- A combination of egocentrism and overzealous real estate agents has led to an overabundance of Manhattan neighborhoods. Here’s a guide to the most popular of them, created with the Attention Deficit Generation in mind. By JANUARY NELSON
- Marble Hill – Basically the Bronx Inwood – So far away, why bother
- Washington Heights – Good to know Spanish here
- Morningside Heights – Columbia trying to make ‘SoHa’ happen
- Sugar Hill – Bougie, once upon a time
- East Harlem – Sneaker capital of the world
- Upper East Side – Old people love it
- Upper West Side – Your nanny and kids love it
- Columbus Circle – Tenth circle of hell
- Rockefeller Center – No one lives here, I hope
- Diamond District – Not as fun as it sounds
- Theater District – Overdressed people with no style
- Turtle Bay – Home of drink specials and wings
- Midtown East – Drink here until you’re 21
- Tudor City – What is this, even
- Times Square – Nightmare for epileptics and everyone
- Hell’s Kitchen – Great place to pick up hookers
- Garment District – Better name Bedazzled Ringer-Tee Row
- Herald Square – There’s a Macy’s and other stuff
- Koreatown – Korean BBQ and karaoke FTW
- Murray Hill – Frat boys graduate then move here
- Union Square – Wallet hasn’t been stolen? Go shopping
- Kips Bay – “It’s a hell of a town”
- NoMad – Nickname never stuck, mark as ‘Irrelevant’
- Chelsea – Homophobic need not apply
- Flatiron District – Looking for SVA? Check American Apparel
- Stuyvesant Town – You’ll get lost here if stoned
- Meatpacking District – Avoid roofies in your $18 cocktail
- Alphabet City – Most expensive place to get stabbed
- East Village – Score ramen, a tattoo, or heroin
- Little Italy – There are some Italian flags here
- Greenwich Village – You can’t afford that townhouse, sorry
- West Village – NYU and lots of blue hair
- Lower East Side – Narrow bars; be skinny to enter
- SoHo – Don’t wear heels here
- Chinatown – ‘No smoking’ in bars doesn’t apply
- TriBeCa – Celebrities live here, for some reason
- South Street Seaport – Where the best buskers perform
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Astonishing 360 panoramic from Brooklyn Bridge at dusk
Always worth going — ITP’s Spring 2011 Show is Sun May 15 thru Tue May 17 #nyc
